The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: No smocking guns. - Page 100 - Politics and Economics

For having run on killing Obamacare, the GOP still has no clue what to replace it with. Sure, they won every office in the country, but they're surprisingly a party in complete disarray.

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politi...cret-tape-leak

01-29-2017 , 01:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Tien

This is a lot like George W Bush war on terror where they take aim at all the wrong targets.

Stopping Islamic extremism starts with having a sit down with Saudi and Qatari leaders and having a frank discussion about funds being sent to Wahhabi causes around the world. And doing this behind closed doors.

Yeah except he's not gonna do that for a host of reasons. He's gonna **** over desperate people instead. Nice job supporting this.

01-29-2017 , 01:09 AM

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Originally Posted by dopebeats

I wonder what this what about though?
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/19/politi...es-libya-isis/

Why do you use ****ing B2 bombers in libya? Hmmm...

The strike was ordered by Obama. One last FU to ISIL, I assume.

The B2, aside from being a giant middle finger

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When asked why the B-2, the world's most technologically-advanced strategic bomber was selected for this particular mission, which killed approximately 80 Islamic State fighters, US Air Force spokesman Col. Patrick Ryder said it gave "military commanders options."

"Because of it's range, because of it's payload capacity, it gives military commanders options. So in this particular case, carrying a GBU-38, a 500 pound JDAM, the B-2 can carry up to 80 of those," Ryder told reporters.

Additionally, the B-2, with a payload capacity of 40,000 pounds, is able to loiter for long periods of time, which gives it "persistence and flexibility if and when additional strikes are warranted," US Air Force spokesman Capt. Mark Graff said in a statement.

http://www.businessinsider.com/b2-bo...-strike-2017-1

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01-29-2017 , 01:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Noodle Wazlib

I said this previously that after 6 years of yelling repeal and replace they still have no working version of what the replace part of it is. And all these suckers voted for that knowing that they have zero replacement. It makes you wonder did they care or were they just wanting OBAMAcare repealed and could give less than 2 ****s what it actually meant.

01-29-2017 , 01:14 AM

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Originally Posted by MediocrePlayer2.0

I just don't understand what the strategy here is other than mashing buttons.

With all the strongman economic populist crap the guy had all of the anecdotes about specific plant closures which is easy to sell against the abstract of free trade being better for the overall population in the long run.

This ******ed ban is going to put all the anecdotes against him .... the stories of honest, hardworking people who are getting ****ed over for no reason are going to be rolling out day after day.

The free trade anecdotes were about white people. The ban anecdotes are about Muslims AKA brown terrorists. Rest assured the base is slurping this up. All that **** about "seriously not lliterally" was their ****ing straight coward way of pretending this wasn't exactly what they wanted.

01-29-2017 , 01:15 AM

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This seems bad. So USA is like a concert now. No re-entry bro. Trump is such a dip ****. The smoke screen theory of the orders is looking pretty solid right now.

01-29-2017 , 01:19 AM

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Noted democracy and freedom hater Steve Bannon is basically running the White House, it seems

http://www.vox.com/2017/1/28/1442819...e-steve-bannon

And he's intent on destroying our government and our country. Doing quite a good job so far.

01-29-2017 , 01:22 AM

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01-29-2017 , 01:26 AM

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01-29-2017 , 01:28 AM

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Originally Posted by th14

Dictators gonna dictate.

01-29-2017 , 01:32 AM

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Breitbart handling this story with typical objectivity

Okay so it really is going to be civil war.

01-29-2017 , 01:33 AM

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Bring it on

01-29-2017 , 01:35 AM

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Originally Posted by fatkid

This seems bad. So USA is like a concert now. No re-entry bro. Trump is such a dip ****. The smoke screen theory of the orders is looking pretty solid right now.

Yeah someone other than Trump is clearly orchestrating these huge public responses so they can sneak other stuff by. So we just going to have things blow up every Friday so even more nefarious stuff can be slid by on the weekend.

01-29-2017 , 01:36 AM

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I really hope at some point in my life I get to see Bannon on trial for treason. Even if it's a sham trial in dystopian Trumpmerica, I could take solace in that. What is needed is a recording of Bannon laughing at how easy it is to manipulate Trump. I'm sure he has said **** like that.

01-29-2017 , 01:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Noodle Wazlib

well knock me over with a feather. So easy when you're in opposition to just scream and stamp your feet, now that you actually get to call the shots life gets difficult.

**** em

01-29-2017 , 01:40 AM

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Originally Posted by AllTheCheese

It's just so ****ed up. I'm pretty sure in Canada brown people + Persians vote conservative in solid numbers. Didn't dubya carry Muslim voters in 2000?

So ****ed up to just brazenly divide ppl like this

01-29-2017 , 01:40 AM

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Just so nobody feels too safe, remember Trump in flag burning when he was all for deporting citizens. So is it really a surprise they are going after green card residents.

We are no longer safe to stay here not even the goofball trump sock puppets.

01-29-2017 , 01:41 AM

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this week feels a lot more important than 9/11 ...

01-29-2017 , 01:43 AM

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Originally Posted by dopebeats

Wow, Trump got them HUDs.

Way to go Facebook. Dark ads will bring down democracy. GJGE

01-29-2017 , 01:43 AM

#2495

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Originally Posted by Kirbynator

this week feels a lot more important than 9/11 ...

Can you imagine the movie?

01-29-2017 , 01:44 AM

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Originally Posted by walkby

Canadian here. When you guys write things like "we're doomed" it's not just hyperbole is it? How bad do you guys think things are going get?

I'm not prone to hyperbole on such things. Certainly the most distressing time for our federal government post Vietnam War. Not even sure what second would be because this seems to be an all-encompassing dismantling.

01-29-2017 , 01:44 AM

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Trump filed as 2020 candidate already (filed 5 hours after swearing in). No doubt to take advantage of various angles it enables. Every scummy angle, all the time.

twitter.com/resisterhood/status/825435325535252480